Linux-Hardware Digest #603, Volume #13 Tue, 19 Sep 00 20:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: External IDE case for parallel port? (Brett C. Cammack)
Re: New Linux Install (Josef Oswald)
Re: New Linux Install ("David ..")
Rewriting to DAT tapes (Vu Phan)
Re: Setup RH6.2 with Abit BP6-II (Sreekant Kodela)
Re: Bad Mouse ("!Boom!")
Legacy Floppy (Chuck)
Re: Turtle Beach, Montego (Chuck)
Re: Question for those who have GeForce 2 working.. (Andrey Vlasov)
Sony SR7K and Linux (Dave Waller)
A good Linux for an SGI Elan? ("Jean-Philippe Valois")
problems booting computer (SOMERTON KENNEDY)
Re: Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD-R Question? ("tal_ice_man")
Linux-compatible Sound Card suggestions (Brendan Killackey)
Re: SMP gaming platform? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird (Joe Machado)
Suse 6.4 / 7.0 (Dan Chirica)
Re: STB Horizon 64 PCI (lobotomy)
Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird (Mike Oliver)
Re: Adaptec ARO raidport add-in cards ("Kimberly Robinson")
"Uniform CDROM driver" and CDRW Burn Errors?!?!? (Douglas E. Mitton)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett C. Cammack)
Subject: Re: External IDE case for parallel port?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:21:01 GMT
On 19 Sep 2000 16:50:25 +0200, Thomas Steffen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for an external case for two IDE devices (if possible,
>CDRW+hd). It should connect to the parallel port, and be supported
>under Win 95, 98, NT and Linux.
I sure have never seen one for *two* IDE devices, but here's a source
for single, half height IDE device @ $65 USD:
http://www.computergate.com/cgi-bin/prodinfo?sn=1076034525102444&cd=HDXTT3500
I do not know if they ship internationally, nor what OS is supported.
Hope this is of some assistance.
Regards,
Brett C. Cammack
------------------------------
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: New Linux Install
From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:24:44 GMT
"James M. Luongo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need some
> help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something about
> LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk cylinder (or
> sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not sure. Is this
> true? Help!
If you install linux on one Disc all by itself, then you don't need to
worry because the set-up tool will determine everything.
If you do install it as a dual-boot then you would need to be careful
:-)
Since I have not installed Mandrake I am not sure but I guess that
there is certainly a tool for the install.
Also there are quite a few Internet sites ( for newbies) that deal
with all those questions, just put Linux and newbies in a
search-machine and you will be _pleasantly_ surprised at how many
sites are out there.....
deja.com too is a great resource of information as well...
hth.
--
Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http://counter.li.org
------------------------------
From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: New Linux Install
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:18:39 -0500
"James M. Luongo" wrote:
>
> I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need some
> help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something about
> LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk cylinder (or
> sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not sure. Is this
> true? Help!
The size of the partitions depends a little on the size of your hard
drive and/or how much space you are allowing linux to use. It also
depends on what you are wanting to install and use the system for. The
only partitions that are mandatory are the root ( / ) partition and the
swap partition.
Below is the output of "df -h" on my system.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 159M 31M 120M 21% /
/dev/hda7 787M 541M 206M 72% /home
/dev/hda5 3.9G 2.1G 1.6G 56% /home/ftp/pub
/dev/hda10 243M 145M 86M 63% /tmp
/dev/hda6 988M 818M 120M 87% /usr
/dev/hda11 152M 607k 143M 0% /usr/local
/dev/hda9 296M 5.9M 275M 2% /usr/src
/dev/hda8 387M 120M 248M 33% /var
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
------------------------------
From: Vu Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rewriting to DAT tapes
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:30:04 -0000
How do you erase existing data on DAT tapes and rewrite to them? I'm
running Red Hat Linux 6.1 on a Compaq DAT drive.
Thanks in advance.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:58:13 +0000
From: Sreekant Kodela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup RH6.2 with Abit BP6-II
Probably the easiest way is installing mandrake 7.1 which recognised the udma66
drive as /dev/hde.
The other option is open the box and change the drive on to normal ide channel
like /dev/hda and install it.
Latest 2.4 test kernel is supporting the udma 66. But you need to
edit /dev/fstab
edit /dev/lilo.conf
run lilo
mount root=/dev/hdeX at lilo prompt on boot, then rdev /boot/bzImage2.4e
/dev/hdeX etc.....
good luck
sreekant
Jimmy Lee wrote:
> I have some questions about the hardware setup with RedHat Linux 6.2. Here
> is my hardware configuration.
>
> Mainborad: Abit BE6-II (w/High point 366 UDMA 66 ver.)
> CPU: Pentium III 500MHz (FC-PGA w/Abit Slocket)
> RAM: KingMax PC133 128MB
> Hard disk: IBM UDMA 66 20MB (connected at UDMA Primary Master channel,
> choose as second boot device in bios)
> CD-Rom: 50x IDE (conneted at IDE Primary Master channel, choose as third
> boot device in bios)
> Display: nVidia TNT Vanta 8MB
> Sound Card: Creative PCI 128 Vibar
> LAN Card: 3COM 3C905C-TX
> MODEM: ZOOM dual mode external
> Others: Floppy drive, Keyboard, Mouse, 15" CRT Monitor
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. I cannot install the RH6.2 with floppy boot disk. In the screen choose
> setup options (Server, Workstatiom, Custom ...), the installation program
> says it cannot find any disk device (forgot the message, but I guess missing
> the UDMA driver) to instll.
>
> 2. I cannot config my nVidia Nanta (8MB, AGP) version to work with any X
> environment.
>
> 3. I cannot config my sound card to work with any Linux. I can locate the
> information about the sound card under Turbo Linux KDE config/PCI
> inofmration (IRQ 11, I/O 0xc800). The sound card is using the Creative
> chipset.
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
------------------------------
From: "!Boom!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Bad Mouse
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:04:54 +0200
Hi! Try setting "Generic serial mouse" in mouseconfig.
Chris A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:b_fx5.216049$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm having a problem getting my mouse, a microsoft Intellimouse,
working
> for X. Actually it works but only about every 50th time i try it. I use
> mouseconfig to set it up and i've tried all the different ttyS' and seriel
> protocals but nothing seems to work. I've also tried editing the
xf86config
> file but it doesn't work there either. Any ideas?
>
>
------------------------------
From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Legacy Floppy
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:46:47 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
errr...
I recently stripped the floppy out of my machine for one reason or
another.
Upon putting it back in, I can't mount it. It still works fine in
Windo$e.
This is typical...
>mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems
I assure you the correct fs type is msdos.
I included no options, so how can one be bad?
The superblock works fine in windoze.
I assure you I don't have too many mounted file systems.
I downloaded fdutils-5.4, and found it to be a pain in my rump in so
many ways. Regardless when all was said and done, it didn't help at all.
As far as I can tell I need to mount the drive before it will be of any
use.
And since mounting the drive is my problem, it's of zero use.
The floppy spins by the way, and the usage LED is active. But nothing's
happening. I'm gonna try another floppy drive while yall get back to
me...
Chuck
------------------------------
From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach, Montego
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:56:58 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you both... I downloaded the driver but I can't compile it.
Several errors while compiling au_audio.c
I agree with the compiler's complaints, so obviously the makefile
is deficient in some way. Any ideas?
The first error is about OWNER being undefined.
Many of the next errors are about incompatible pointer types,
and fields (ie. 'read', 'write') already being initialized....
Leejay Wu wrote:
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.hardware: 19-Sep-100 Re: Turtle
> Beach, Montego by Joshua Baker-LePain@duke
> > Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Anyone know of a driver that'll work with my Turtle Beach
> > > Montego A3D sound card? The card is actually Dell propreitary
> > > and not Turtle Beach standard, if that matters.
> >
> > FAQ: linux.aureal.com (if the site is still solvent -- the
> > company isn't so)
>
> Site's still up, but hasn't been updated for some time...
>
> Plus:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal
>
> Seems others have been trying to improve the drivers.
> --
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
> |--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
> | #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
>
>
------------------------------
From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question for those who have GeForce 2 working..
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:58:33 -0700
Hi Jon,
did you read annotaion to XFree 4.0.1. It has option which generate config file
for you.
In my case G400 it was perfectly work, except it didn't switch on 3D
acceleration but
it was included into config file and commented. I at work on Solaris mashine
and can
not give information about this option but it was very simple.
Andrey
Jon Deslippe wrote:
> I am running RH6.2 with an Elsa Gladiac(GeForce 2 GTS) and have finished
> installing XFree86 4.0.1. My question is that after the XFree86 install the
> XFree86 configurator will not run, so I cannot generate an X86 Config file.
> If I still go ahead and install the Nvidia drivers will I be able to set up
> the configuration later or am I in trouble?
> Thanx.
------------------------------
From: Dave Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony SR7K and Linux
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:34:26 -0500
How much of the SR7K works under Linux.
Dave Waller
------------------------------
From: "Jean-Philippe Valois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: A good Linux for an SGI Elan?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:36:06 -0400
Hi all!
I think I can get my hands on an old SGI Elan station and would like to put
Linux on it, but I'm not too sure which would be suitable; any ideas? (that
is, of course, if Linux runs at all on an ELan).
I already have some experience with RedHat, so maybe I could pick a Linux on
that basis?
Thanks!
P.S. please forward replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - thanks!!
------------------------------
From: SOMERTON KENNEDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems booting computer
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:45:23 GMT
irecently installed linuxmandrake7.1 on my system and then idecided to
install slackware7 and now my computer will not boot up to any os please
please please i need help you can email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:36:48 GMT
I use the same kind of setup, mb Asus A7V with
the promise ultra100 controler.
primary ide: cdrom atapi
secondary ide: Yamaha cdrw
primary ata100: ibm 30g
secondary ata100: none
I tried to install mandrake 7.1 (kernel 2.2.15).
It boots on the cd, then when trying to partion
de hd, it says there is no device to partition
and stops there. Did you do anything special to
get it working?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
KK Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Promise thing got BIOS support as it is a
built-in controller chip on
> the board.
> Any other idea??
>
> John in SD wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 02:42:27 +0800, KK Leung
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I got a system here w/ ASUS A7V with an
ATAPI CDROM, an IBM 30G and another
> > >IBM 4G. Configuration as follows:
> > >
> > >Primary IDE: CDROM (/dev/hda)
> > >Secondary IDE: None
> > >Primary ATA100: IBM 30G (/dev/hde)
> > >Secondary ATA100: IBM 4G (/dev/hdc) -- Linux
root
> > >
> > >I can boot using floppy, passing boot
parameters "ide1=0x9000,0x8802
> > >ide2=0x9800,0x9402". However, LILO didn't
work. It can install w/o error w/
> > >the Linear parameter set, but when it boots,
it stops at LI. If installed
> > >w/o "Linear", it finishes with error
claiming it doesnt know how to work
> > >with the device.
> > >
> > >Any hint what I should do?? I'm using 2.2.17
kernel.
> >
> > If the new controller does not have BIOS
support, then LILO cannot boot from
> > it.
> >
> > From the LILO 21.5.1 source directory,
run "make floppy" to make a diagnostic
> > diskette to check for BIOS support of your
hard drives.
> >
> > ftp: metalab.unc.edu
> > dir: /pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
> >
> > --John
> >
> > LILO version 21.5 (18-Jul-2000) source at
> > ftp: brun.dyndns.org dir: /pub/linux/lilo
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: "tal_ice_man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-R Question?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:53:13 -0700
I apologize in advance for the long-windedness, but I wanted to get enough
information out there help diagnose the problem.
I put append="hdb ide-scsi" in my lilo and ran lilo. I edited my
modules.conf file (yes, I know RedHat 6.2 doesn' t ship using modules.conf,
I simply mv'd conf.modules). After rebooting, I tested cdrecord -scanbus
and got nothing. I then added alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi to my
modules.conf file and rebooted (sorry, bad habit from dealing with windoze).
cdrecord -scanbus recognized the drive just fine after that, with scsi id 0.
After following the advice in this forum, I was able to get my Creative 6242
cdrw ( or something like that) to be recognized by cdrecord -scanbus. I am
running RedHat 6.2 on an AMD233/ASUS Tx7 in a dual boot configuration. I
have a couple of harddrives with approximately 2Gb of free on /dev/hdc and
another 2GB of free space on /dev/hda.
I put in a "700MB" generic cdr disc to test. I used the command:
cdrecord -v -dev=0,0 -speed=4 -dummy /cdcopy/myimage.raw
After some variable number of megabytes, I get a "media" error, 0x03 (i
think). The number of megabytes "written" before it bails varies from a
low of about 14 to a high value of about 90. I have run this test with
about 6 different disks, all of the same generic no-name batch of blank
disks. My fifo was always between a low of 94% and a high of 97%, with 0
attempts at reading a partially filled buffer.
Prior to reading the comments above, I was inclined to think it was the
media itself. However, now I am wondering if it may be the drive is of poor
quality.
Question:
1. How does the linux cdrecord determine that a "write error" has occurred
in dummy mode? The laser is not really writing so there is nothing to read
back. How does this work?
2. In the opinion of the experts in this forum, is the problem more likely
with the media or the drive or neither and I am doing something stupid (a
likely possibility)?
-- Dean
Frank Sweetser wrote in message ...
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have a problem recording to a SAF CDR-4012 (SCSI) connected to a
>
>Ah, yes, the Smart and Friendly, affectionaly known here as the
>Smart and Fuckup drive. What they actually do, is take the cheapest
>drive currently on the market, and repackage it as one of theirs. Last
>one we bought, burned about 5 drives before becoming a coaster factory.
>Replacement never even spun up properly.
>
>Then, we went out and bought a yamaha cdr4416, which promptly burned
>somewhere around 1000 discs, with a total of two or three coasters over
>an entire summer.
>
>--
>Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 9
>Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy |
>To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something
>that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. :-)
> -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
------------------------------
From: Brendan Killackey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux-compatible Sound Card suggestions
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:13:20 -0700
Howdy--
I'm relatively new. Anyone have any suggestions for a 4-channel sound
card runs under Linux?
I'd be interested in non-SB suggestions, since I've heard SB cards are a
bit inferior in the world of sound cards.
--
BK
------------------------------
Subject: Re: SMP gaming platform?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 Sep 2000 18:23:00 -0400
Alexander Ling Euk Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm thinking of buying an SMP machine. Does anybody know whether
> getting an SMP Linux box will give improved performance over a
> single processor box given that the rest of the hardware is the
> same? (E.g both will have 256MB RAM and Voodoo5). If there is a
> performance gap, how much is it?
You seem to be misunderstanding how SMP works.
For a single process, an SMP computer will run at exactly the same
speed as a single-CPU computer.
Each processor can run, give or take a little, one process or thread
at a time. You will thus see virtually no speedup for a
single-threaded application. You will realize minor gains as things
like disk I/O or whatever are offloaded to other CPUs, but that will
likely be pretty small.
Under nearly ideal conditions, the performance is almost linear as you
add or remove CPUs. Under practical conditions, you can expect a 0%
to 60% speedup, depending on the sort of programs you usually run.
> I'd appreciate it if someone could point to some benchmarks on the Web!
Benchmarks are worthless.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
------------------------------
From: Joe Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:14:27 GMT
I initially had the same problem, but I successfully installed RH6.2 on an
Abit KT7
motherboard with a 1000MHz Athlon after I specified the x86_serial_nr kernel
option during the installation. This option inverts the compiled state of the
disable_x86_serial_nr boolean in the kernel. RH6.2 defaults to always
disabling
the serial number. See /usr/src/linux/init/main.c and
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c for details.
I hope this helps.
Joe
Marcus Lauer wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Lou Grinzo wrote:
> >I'm assembling a system with an ABit KT7 motherboard and
> >a 950MHz Athlon Thunderbird, for use with Linux. I ran
> >into a weird problem, though: When I install RH 6.2,
> >everything goes perfectly until the first boot of the
> >installed system, when Linux crashes with a general
> >protection fault 0000 because it tries to disable
> >the CPUID of the chip, according to the boot messages.
> >It looks like Linux is mistaking my Athlon for a P-III.
> >
> >I tried RH 6.1, and it installed and runs without a
> >hitch on the identical hardware, so it's clearly a 6.2
> >issue.
> >
> >How do I disable this behavior on a fresh install of 6.2?
> >
> >
> >
>
> This is a well-known problem with RedHat 6.2. See the "Linux won't
> boot with Thunderbird!" thread for more info.
>
> Marcus
------------------------------
From: Dan Chirica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse 6.4 / 7.0
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:30:55 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody know a place where I can download Suse 6.4 or 7.0
I tried suse's home site, but all I could find was the whole thing which
is over 3Gb in size.
What I want is something that will fit on one CD-ROM.
Thanks to all of you.
Dan
------------------------------
From: lobotomy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: STB Horizon 64 PCI
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:36:00 GMT
This card is based on the Cirrus Logic 5434 chipset. Its supported in
both the 3.3.x and 4.0.x versions of XFree86. So whatever comes with
your distribution will work.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:30:14 +0200, L.K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I looking for XServer for STB Horizon 64 PCI video card, do anybody could help
>me. I will be great full for your help.
>
>I have old computer and I am going to install disk-less host with Horizon card.
>
>Lukasz: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>You can write for my email.
>
------------------------------
From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:41:27 -0700
Joe Machado wrote:
>
> I initially had the same problem, but I successfully installed RH6.2 on an
> Abit KT7
> motherboard with a 1000MHz Athlon after I specified the x86_serial_nr kernel
> option during the installation. This option inverts the compiled state of the
>
> disable_x86_serial_nr boolean in the kernel. RH6.2 defaults to always
> disabling
> the serial number. See /usr/src/linux/init/main.c and
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c for details.
Does the Athlon in fact *have* a CPUID? I certainly prefer
having none.
I'm considering buying an Athlon 850 MHz upgrade kit from Fry's. I
don't currently have any Linux installed but would like to install
Linux RH6.2 in a triple-boot with Win95/WinNT, on a new 30.7GB
UDMA/100 HD. Does anyone see any red flags in that setup?
------------------------------
From: "Kimberly Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec ARO raidport add-in cards
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:42:52 -0000
>Hi folks. Is anybody out there working on a driver for the Adaptec
>ARO-1130 family of raidport add-in cards, or the AAA-130 PCI
>raid controllers, which I suspect are very similar?
There has been some recent discussion about creating a driver for the AAA
cards, but no word on the ARO. If there is a demand for an ARO driver,
please let me know and I'll be happy to convey this.
>c) what adaptec's attitude to this is likely to be?
Adaptec has recently taken a big leap forward in linux support starting with
their newest RAID controllers and now the Ultra160 SCSI cards. Attitude
looks good :)
You are welcome to contact me for updates or further information.
Kimberly Robinson
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Subject: "Uniform CDROM driver" and CDRW Burn Errors?!?!?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:52:14 GMT
Hi All;
I'm still investigating a problem that I (and others) are having with
the newest kernels, in my case V2.2.14 to V2.2.17. The problems
involves an error abort at some point in the burn cycle with cdrecord.
The error DOES NOT occur with 2.2.13 and earlier. Also, I have just
discovered, Mandrake (with kernel 2.2.14-15mdk) kernel also does not
exhibit this failure.
The failure mode is as follows; at some random point during the burn
cycle this error is generated:
(Sorry for the HUGE dump)
==================================================================
Mitton<P2>dmitton:/image$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data
mandrake71.raw
Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'CREATIVE'
Identifikation : 'CD-RW RW6424E '
Revision : '1.41'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 649 MB
Total size: 745 MB (73:50.65) = 332299 sectors
Lout start: 745 MB (73:52/49) = 332299 sectors
Current Secsize: -1
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Reference speed: 2
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00)
ATIP start of lead out: 335100 (74:30/00)
speed low: 0 speed high: 4
power mult factor: 5 6
recommended erase/write power: 3
Disk type: phase change
Manuf. index: 81
Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.???
Blocks total: 335100 Blocks current: 335100 Blocks remaining: 2801
RBlocks total: 353448 RBlocks current: 353448 RBlocks remaining: 21149
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer
ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 54 of 649 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output
error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 6D 20 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F1 00 05 00 00 6D 20 0C 00 00 00 00 10 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x02 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching
qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 27936 (valid)
cmd finished after 2.720s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 57212928 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 103.329s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 77.717s
cdrecord: fifo had 1874 puts and 1747 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1619 times full, min fill was
96%.
Mitton<P2>dmitton:/image$
==========================================================================
I have tried investigating many things and I have found a difference
between the stock Mandrake drivers and the Slackware drivers in the
standard kernel.
When Mandrake boots and loads the ide-scsi module the following
"Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56" message is displayed in dmesg.
The slackware boot does not display this.
Stock Mandrake 7.0 boot (this works OK with cdrecord):
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW6424E Rev: 1.41
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Slackware 7 updated to Kernel 2.2.17:
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW6424E Rev: 1.41
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Slackware loads the proper modules (sg, sr_mod, ide_scsi) via
/etc/conf.modules as per the How-To, and sometimes it does actually
burn a cd, just not everytime as it does under Slackware and kernel
2.2.13.
Does any one recognize this different boot message? Are you aware of
a standard patch that Mandrake applies to its kernel tree that I can
try in Slackware?
I tried searches on the "Uniform CDROM driver" and found lots of
interesting reading but it looks like this should be in the current
kernel source, my question is how do I activate it and can it be
causing my problem?
Thanks in advance to any and all responders. I'm getting very tired
of being stuck at Kernel V2.2.13 just because I can't get around this
intermittent CD burning issue.
------------------------------------------------
Doug Mitton - Brockville, Ontario, Canada
'City of the Thousand Islands'
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cybertap.com/dmitton
Other: mitton.dyndns.org
SPAM Reduction: Remove "x." from my domain.
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
